Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germans adopted "Blau" gas, a mixture of several gases obtained by cracking petroleum. The gas prepared to take the Graf Zeppelin back to Germany is ethane, extracted from natural gas. It is asserted that ethane is not only cheaper to produce than Blau gas but is a better fuel. Germany, which has little natural gas, cannot produce...
...July 1926, in Canton, Ohio, Don R. Mellett, young editor of James M. Cox's Canton News, was shot down in his back yard one evening as he was putting his car away. It was vengeance from the underworld, against which Mellett had been crusading in his newspaper. The journalistic world rang with the news. The U. S. press was not content that two of Editor Mellett's murderers should be given life sentences and two condemned to 20 years in prison. At the suggestion of a journalist, Editor & Publisher, trade weekly of the Press, started a campaign...
...Safety during the former regime of Mayor Curtis, organized the Canton underworld and exacted a toll of graft from all of its vicious activities and, when exposed by the News, was arrested, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. I ask you to ponder the fact that Mayor Curtis is back on the job today at City Hall, the people's choice, as a result of a campaign of such demagogery as would give any intelligent or patriotic citizen mental cramps...
...call two more publishers, two more paper tycoons. The publishers are: Frank Ernest Gannett, owner of 17 chain-papers, who distinguished himself a fortnight ago, not by announcing that International Paper & Power Co. had bought stock in four of his papers, but by announcing that he had bought back such stock from I. P. & P. (TIME, May 13): and Samuel Emory Thomason, co-owner of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (Chicago Journal, Greensboro, N. C., Record, Tampa, Fla., Tribune) in which are one million Graustein dollars...
Author Stribling, sometimes called the Sinclair Lewis of the South, began his writing career with stories for Sunday-school publications. He passed on to plotty melodramas for paper-pulp magazines, rose to heights in Birthright and Teef-tallow. Strange Moon drops back to the pulp level. Possibly it is a resurrection from his serial days. Or perhaps it just reflects Author Stribling's habit of writing in a reclining position...